FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – YITHRO:
“And it came to be, on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain. And the voice of a shophar was very strong, and all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moshe brought the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.”
It is interesting to note that the Hebrew word in this passage, translated into English as “at the foot of,” is tachat. Normally, this word is translated as “under,” or “underneath.” Some scholars suppose that this encounter between YHWH and His people was something of a ‘shotgun wedding,’ and that YHWH was holding the mountain over the people’s heads as He awaited their answer to His proposal of marriage. That answer was then quite predictable:
“And Moshe came and called for the elders of the people and set before them all these words which YHWH commanded him. And all the people answered together and said, ‘All that YHWH has spoken we shall do.’”
Created OOMs ?
The Traplamp, a bulky flashlight shape of scratched turqoise plastic with surprisingly no more than a single clunky switch. From the front, a smudged transparent bulge swelled like a bulb about to fall from its socket. Inside this swelling the arcane mechanics of the device could be glimpsed by a youthful eye.
Switched on, cast networks like the light reflected from tremulous water, but frozen in form, multiple layers of different colour, sliding past each other in different directions: red, violet, brown, patina, combed intermittantly by a 'radar' beam of thin eye-burn style light in lightning form.
Traplight, a light which, supposedly, no preternatural entity could conceal itself from.
#writtenoom 2025-01-07
#dailycreatedoom
Created OOMs ?
The Traplamp, a bulky flashlight shape of scratched turqoise plastic with surprisingly no more than a single clunky switch. From the front, a smudged transparent bulge swelled like a bulb about to fall from its socket. Inside this swelling the arcane mechanics of the device could be glimpsed by a youthful eye.
Switched on, cast networks like the light reflected from tremulous water, but frozen in form, multiple layers of different colour, sliding past each other in different directions: red, violet, brown, patina, combed intermittantly by a 'radar' beam of thin eye-burn style light in lightning form.
Traplight, a light which, supposedly, no preternatural entity could conceal itself from.
#writtenoom 2025-01-07
#dailycreatedoom
Created OOMs ?
The Traplamp, a bulky flashlight shape of scratched turqoise plastic with surprisingly no more than a single clunky switch. From the front, a smudged transparent bulge swelled like a bulb about to fall from its socket. Inside this swelling the arcane mechanics of the device could be glimpsed by a youthful eye.
Switched on, cast networks like the light reflected from tremulous water, but frozen in form, multiple layers of different colour, sliding past each other in different directions: red, violet, brown, patina, combed intermittantly by a 'radar' beam of thin eye-burn style light in lightning form.
Traplight, a light which, supposedly, no preternatural entity could conceal itself from.
#writtenoom 2025-01-07
#dailycreatedoom
Created OOMs ?
The Traplamp, a bulky flashlight shape of scratched turqoise plastic with surprisingly no more than a single clunky switch. From the front, a smudged transparent bulge swelled like a bulb about to fall from its socket. Inside this swelling the arcane mechanics of the device could be glimpsed by a youthful eye.
Switched on, cast networks like the light reflected from tremulous water, but frozen in form, multiple layers of different colour, sliding past each other in different directions: red, violet, brown, patina, combed intermittantly by a 'radar' beam of thin eye-burn style light in lightning form.
Traplight, a light which, supposedly, no preternatural entity could conceal itself from.
#writtenoom 2025-01-07
#dailycreatedoom
Created OOMs ?
The Traplamp, a bulky flashlight shape of scratched turqoise plastic with surprisingly no more than a single clunky switch. From the front, a smudged transparent bulge swelled like a bulb about to fall from its socket. Inside this swelling the arcane mechanics of the device could be glimpsed by a youthful eye.
Switched on, cast networks like the light reflected from tremulous water, but frozen in form, multiple layers of different colour, sliding past each other in different directions: red, violet, brown, patina, combed intermittantly by a 'radar' beam of thin eye-burn style light in lightning form.
Traplight, a light which, supposedly, no preternatural entity could conceal itself from.
#writtenoom 2025-01-07
#dailycreatedoom
Proverbs 12:20, “Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.” Carefully planned deception is evil. However we do sometimes misunderstand also which is another reason we are warned often not to be deceived. Only through careful study are we able to know the difference between a carefully devised evil plan to deceive and our own misunderstanding.
Question 100: What problems did the queen of Sheba put to prove the Wisdom of Solomon?
Answer:
The Bible here gives us no clue but tradition has preserved some of the questions which she is said to have put to Solomon to test his wisdom! These we believe, are principally found in the Talmudic writings. It is said she introduced a party of children all dressed alike and asked the king to tell which were boys and which girls. King Solomon ordered vessels to be brought that the children might wash their hands. The girls rolled up their sleeves, but the boys plunged their hands into the water at once and were easily detected by the king. The queen next ordered her attendants to set before Solomon a number of beautiful bouquets and asked him to indicate which were the real flowers and which the false. Solomon ordered the keeper of his gardens to bring in a hive of bees and they almost instantly settled upon the natural flowers and began to extract the sweets from them, leaving the artificial flowers untouched. Other traditions illustrative of Solomon's wisdom are told by the ancient writers.
Question 99: Whence came the Queen of Sheba?
Answer:
It is supposed by well-informed authorities that she came from Yemen, in Arabia Felix. In Matthew 12:42 she is referred to as the "Queen of the South," who came from "the uttermost parts of the earth," a term applied by the ancients to southern Arabia. Not improbably she was a lineal descendant of Abraham by Keturah whose grandson Sheba, peopled that part of the then known world. The Arabic account of this queen gives her the name of Bilkis or Yelkamah, a monarch of the Himyerites; but their account is probably more legendary than accurate as to detail.
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